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- I love you.
- I love you.
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Fuck!
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I have to see you.
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Mrs. Simpson.
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The legal aid I mentioned.
She's very good.
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If you need assistance
with housing for the night,
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we have resources we can access.
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Howard, listen to me.
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- You made a terrible mistake.
- Not another word.
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- It wasn't me.
- My client is here
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- to pick up his children.
- What?
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That shouldn't be a problem.
They're right this way.
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Eleanor must have called the cops.
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I didn't say anything.
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I'm gonna make sure
you never see those girls again.
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No, you cannot do that.
They need me. They need their mother.
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Hey, girls.
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- Where are we going now?
- Home.
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Hi, sweetie. It's okay.
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- I'm so sorry about this.
- What about Mommy?
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She has to answer some questions.
Come on, sweetie.
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Howard, please. I'm begging you. Please.
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- Please don't do this.
- I didn't do this. You did.
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Not me. You.
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- Mommy!
- It's okay, sweetie.
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Come on, Ganz. Pick up.
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Ms. Bouchet.
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What the hell is going on?
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What happened with Howard?
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We had nothing to hold him on.
We had to let him go.
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Fuck.
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- Fuck.
- It's not him. You've gotta move on.
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Over the last 12 hours,
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we've managed to gather credible info
from local law enforcement
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who are working with us
to help track down Mr. Reed.
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We've widened the search statewide,
we have eyes on the border.
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So you lost him.
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We have units at his residence
in Bakersfield.
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We also have units
at his last known place of employment.
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We've had multiple possible sightings
come over the tip line,
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but nothing that we've been able
to substantiate yet.
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And why haven't you done
all this until now?
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- Mr. Reed was never a person of interest.
- No shit.
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'Cause you're too busy
pinning my wife's murder on me
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instead of doing your fucking jobs.
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Do I need to remind you
that this meeting's a courtesy?
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A courtesy that I'm not sure is warranted
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considering the beating that we'll take if
Mr. Simpson decides to sue this department
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for a request I made
at the behest of your family.
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So, if you're finished,
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- we can continue.
- Excuse me.
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- Mary Simpson. I was told this is where--
- Yes, yes. Please, have a seat.
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Detective.
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The only reason that both of you are here
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is because you knew
Mrs. Hennessey the longest.
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Can you give us any information
about the relationship
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between Mr. Reed and Mrs. Hennessey
that can help us find him?
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As far as we knew, she cut off
all contact with her family years ago.
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More like decades.
She didn't want anything to do with them.
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Well, we believe that Mr. Reed
and Mrs. Hennessey were still in contact.
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We were able to track this number to a
now inactive phone purchased by Mr. Reed.
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Mrs. Hennessey called him five nights
before she was murdered
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and then again
on the night she was killed.
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We haven't determined
the nature of the calls, but--
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So now you're blaming Nancy
for getting killed
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instead of finding the guy
who fucking did it?
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I'm so sorry we weren't able
to be more helpful.
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Robert. Please stop.
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What?
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I know how this looks.
But I was not wrong about Howard.
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I don't know how Scott fits
into all of this,
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but maybe they were working together.
They must have--
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Scott killed her, all right? Scott.
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Not Howard.
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Whatever it is that you two got going on,
just leave me the hell out of it.
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- They took him in front of my children.
- Well--
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- Did you know that?
- I did not know that
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- they would move that quickly.
- They did.
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I'm sorry that that happened.
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- But we made a deal and you walked away.
- He has my kids, Ellie.
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He may as well have my arms and legs.
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I am nothing, I am meat,
I am worthless without them.
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What does that mean?
That we just let him get away with it?
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Did you see the video?
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What if we're wrong? Hmm?
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- What if Scott killed Nancy?
- You can't possibly believe that.
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- I don't know!
- Mary,
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has the Adderall
just completely fucked up your brain?
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Howard all but confessed.
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You can't think that it's okay
to leave Marcus and the girls with him.
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Why don't you get your own family
and stop leeching off of everyone else's?
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What about the court date?
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The hearing, yes.
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To obtain an emergency custody order.
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Your husband's filed
on an expedited timeline.
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Judge Davis scheduled us for Tuesday.
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That's in six days. You said we had weeks.
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- How can he do that?
- He's claiming
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"reasonable belief
of imminent physical harm."
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From Mom? That's bullshit.
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He's also citing exigent circumstances.
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It seems like work is taking him to Ohio
and he's petitioning to take the girls.
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- He can't.
- Well, that's up to Judge Davis.
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No, that's not fair.
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Marcus, sit.
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He cheats on her.
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He has for years.
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You think I don't know, but I do.
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Sweetie…
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My dad, he tries to act
like this good guy.
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He has everyone fooled.
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No one knows what he's really like.
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There must be something we can do.
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Do you have any proof of
any kind of abusive behavior?
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No. He's…
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He's more insidious than that.
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I do believe he's capable
of anything, though.
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And have you ever
reported anything to the police?
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- No.
- That's unfortunate.
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Without a contemporaneous report
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our best bet is to avoid
Howard's weaknesses altogether.
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Focus on your strengths.
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We're gonna need
a stellar character witness.
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I can do it.
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From somebody outside the family.
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Preferably someone
who's known you for years.
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Who do you have in your life
who can vouch for you?
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Morning.
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- Hi, Bernard.
- Miss Ellie.
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- It's been a long time.
- Good to see you.
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- Welcome home.
- Thank you.
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If they don't want to close,
then we'll have to go into arbitration.
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I agree.
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Then get them to sign.
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Thank you.
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Hi.
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Is that a…
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shag or a bob?
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Hard to tell with the length.
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It's a bixie actually.
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It suits you.
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I just wanted to try something new.
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I was kind of surprised when
your brother said that you were coming.
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I thought he was teasing.
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Usually when you run, it's…
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not typically in my direction.
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Yeah.
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I don't know where else to go.
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I have run out of places to go.
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Mr. Hennessey. You have a guest.
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Not now, Adele.
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Shit.
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Hey.
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Are you moving?
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Just redecorating.
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Thought I might turn it
into a pottery studio.
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Or somewhere to meditate.
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Yeah, it certainly looks like that.
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What can I do for you?
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I have a custody hearing
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and I need character witnesses.
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People who have known me for a long time
and who can vouch for me as a mother.
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Oh, man.
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You must really be scraping
the bottom of the barrel coming to me.
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What? No, Robert.
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You've seen me parent and at least
you've heard about it from Nancy, or…
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Well, what about Eleanor?
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We're no longer speaking.
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I don't believe that for a second.
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Well, believe it. We're done.
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You know, when she came over here with
that crackpot story about your husband…
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I mean, she was terrified.
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For you.
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She was?
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You've never liked me.
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From the beginning.
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Why not?
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Come on. Do you want me to help you?
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Robert, it's not that I don't…
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Spit it out. Don't be polite.
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I'm sick of politeness.
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Come on, Mary. Be honest.
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I never got it.
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Why the two of them fawned over you.
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I mean, I get that you're tall and…
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Kennedy-esque and all that, but…
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But what?
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You're a branch.
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Not a tree.
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You only have what you've been given.
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You're a collection
of expectations from others.
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You…
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Your real self…
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You barely even exist.
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Robert, in four days…
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I have to stand in front of a judge…
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who will decide
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if I ever get to see my children again.
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Mr. Hennessey.
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The police are here, sir.
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As of 9:13 this morning,
we have Scott Reed in custody.
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- Wait… So you found him?
- We found him.
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Oh, my God.
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Thank you. I mean, that's just…
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- Seriously, thank you. I--
- There's more.
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Mr. Reed had Mrs. Hennessey's phone
on him when he was apprehended.
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The one that we couldn't find
at the scene?
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Forensics was able to ID it.
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So, that's…
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That's it. It's over.
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We have a long road ahead
but we are confident.
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Has he confessed?
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Like I said, we are confident.
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So, what happens now?
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He's been arraigned,
and we're moving him to County.
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Do I need to…
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- Hello?
- Mrs. Simpson?
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- Who is this?
- Oliver Nock.
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I represent Scott Reed.
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How did you get my number?
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My client has been forthcoming
with the police about his innocence,
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but seems to be falling on deaf ears.
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He's asked to speak with you.
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Have a seat.
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Ackee and salt fish,
plantain and callaloo.
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- Your favorites.
- You cooked.
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Have a seat.
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Look, if you don't want to,
we don't have--
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No, no, no. Thank you.
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No. I just… I got a call.
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Nancy's stepfather has been arrested
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and he wants to talk to me.
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And this is something you don't want?
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I mean, this is the man
who may have killed my best friend.
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So I feel like I have to go and look him
in the eye and ask him why, but…
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But what?
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I can't.
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I can't go back.
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I feel like every time I am trying to do
the right thing, something ends up broken.
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Eleanor, what part of sleeping
with your best friend's husband
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seemed like the right thing?
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Wow. Must you always be so cruel?
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Well, what do you want me to do?
Sugarcoat the truth?
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Yes. Yes.
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Just for once,
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I would love it if you would
even just pretend to be in my corner.
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Because that…
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that is why I left.
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What happened between you and Robert
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does not get to define you.
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That was a mistake.
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A mistake that you have paid for.
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I am looking at you,
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and I know you have.
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Mom…
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I thought it was real.
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I did.
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And I gave him every last bit of me.
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But I don't want to do that again.
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I never want to feel that way again,
with anyone.
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Don't do that.
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Don't shut down.
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When your father died,
I let that be all there is.
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Be better than me.
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Robert wasn't the one.
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The end.
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But your friends…
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Eleanor,
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you have found people to love,
share your life with.
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Obviously I did not teach you that,
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but you figured it out on your own.
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And these people,
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if you really love them,
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then you have got to show them.
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And that means
you've got to go back there.
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Go back there and see this thing through.
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Because if you don't, trust me,
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you'll become what you deride.
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A hardened woman
who can barely get through lunch
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with the person she loves the most.
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What do you want me to do?
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I mean, yeah, baby.
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Okay. Well, then you call him.
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- Hello.
- Please.
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He'll be here any minute.
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I didn't kill her.
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And I told the cops that.
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They don't believe me.
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They're making it out
like I went after her.
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But she called me
a couple of nights before she died.
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Well, if it isn't Fancy Nancy
in the flesh.
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You still wear the same cologne.
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Beer.
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Real nice ring.
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So, what?
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We're gonna have a staring contest?
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I was a child.
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The things you did to me…
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I was just a child.
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A waste of time.
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No, you're gonna sit
the fuck down and listen to me.
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Easy, all right?
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Yeah, she told me everything.
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She was fucking your husband.
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Lying to everyone about it.
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Said he was a real creep too.
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Wouldn't take no for an answer.
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He even sent her naked pictures.
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Her husband saw 'em.
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It seemed like she didn't have
nobody to talk to.
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So that's what we did.
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A couple of days later she called again,
and she's at some…
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some birthday thing…
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No. No, I'm sorry.
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This… None of this makes any sense.
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She never would have called you.
She hated you.
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You ruined her life.
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She wanted my protection.
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How?
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How were you going to protect her?
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She wanted me to scare him.
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Rough him up a bit.
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Get him to back off.
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I was going to do it too.
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I owed her that much.
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- Get back here.
- Sto…
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Hey.
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- This has to stop.
- Hello?
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I have to tell her.
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- You don't mean that.
- Where are you?
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She may never speak to me again,
but she deserves
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- to know the truth.
- Can you hear me?
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Shit.
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He was… He was leaned over her…
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her body.
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Doing something with her…
her hand. I didn't see what.
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You just left her there?
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What was I supposed to do?
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You call for help.
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You tell the police.
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You're going to tell me
what I should have done?
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Your husband killed your best friend.
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What the fuck
are you going to do about it?
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'Cause I tried telling them
and no one would believe me.
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Where are you going?
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To the police station.
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I'm coming with you.
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They said they had urgent information
about the Hennessey case.
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- Thought you'd want to hear it.
- I have a press conference to get to.
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- Make it quick.
- We went to see Scott.
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- I am aware.
- Detective, he's telling the truth.
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And your evidence is?
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Him. Him. He is an eyewitness.
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He saw Howard do it.
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He has details about the crime because--
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- Yes, because he committed it.
- No.
24:06.321 --> 24:08.365
Why does it feel
like you want it to be him?
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Let me tell you how this works.
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In here, I have physical,
verifiable, concrete evidence.
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- Yes, but you s--
- I have phone records,
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prints on the victim's phone.
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I even have a series of threatening
Instagram messages from Mr. Reed.
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- Just talk to him. Just…
- That gives me motive.
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I have everything I need to present this
to the DA's office.
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And I have a sea of reporters
waiting to hear the good news
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that the victim of a heinous crime
is going to get justice.
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So, unless you have something better
than what I have, we are done here.
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- His…
- What about Howard's phone or his laptop?
24:41.273 --> 24:43.191
Everything we've given you
so far is circumstantial.
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But what if we had something
that connected Howard to Nancy?
24:46.069 --> 24:49.447
Someone texted nudes
of Nancy to her phone.
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Howard has to have those pictures.
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Can you get a warrant
to search his computer?
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We're done here.
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What? Detective, are you fucking serious?
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- Okay. Hey, Mary! Mary.
- You have to do your job!
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- Stop. I know.
- This is her job.
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- But clearly she doesn't give a shit.
- Stop it. Not here.
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Let's go.
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Please.
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I have to go to court tomorrow.
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And I have nothing.
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Howard is going to take my girls.
He's going to take my fucking kids, Ellie.
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- Are you high?
- What? No!
25:18.101 --> 25:20.312
You told me you weren't taking
those pills anymore.
25:20.979 --> 25:23.022
I didn't start
until after Nancy died, okay?
25:23.023 --> 25:25.526
- So you lied.
- I didn't think you would understand.
25:26.777 --> 25:29.403
You had so much going on.
25:29.404 --> 25:34.116
And you were able to handle it
so much better. And I just…
25:34.117 --> 25:35.869
I felt like I was underwater.
25:36.453 --> 25:41.916
And everything took so much effort
and I couldn't focus with the kids.
25:41.917 --> 25:44.919
I just… I needed something
just to get me going.
25:44.920 --> 25:49.131
You sat on this couch
and you told me everything about Howard,
25:49.132 --> 25:51.342
and the cheating, everything that he did.
25:51.343 --> 25:54.220
But you were still keeping shit from me.
25:54.221 --> 25:57.598
Mary, how are we looking
each other in the eye and just lying?
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I don't know! You tell me.
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I don't know. It's not just me.
It's you, it's me, it's Nancy.
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Nancy was lying.
26:03.981 --> 26:07.484
She was talking to Scott
and we had no idea!
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I know. I know. I know. I know.
26:16.118 --> 26:20.581
Mary, that night
after we all left your birthday dinner,
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I was standing at the valet, waiting.
26:25.210 --> 26:26.712
And Nancy came back.
26:28.422 --> 26:32.509
And she asked me to go with her,
and I said no.
26:33.552 --> 26:39.473
She was trying to be honest with me
and I wouldn't let her.
26:39.474 --> 26:44.854
And now she's gone and I have been
so scared to say that out loud.
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But I don't… I don't want to
hold on to it anymore.
26:58.118 --> 27:01.496
I wasn't just stealing Nancy's things.
27:03.373 --> 27:05.292
Howard and I would sometimes…
27:07.586 --> 27:09.420
Every once in a while when we had sex,
27:09.421 --> 27:12.549
we would role-play
and we would pretend we were them.
27:13.300 --> 27:15.260
I used to pretend I was her.
27:16.887 --> 27:19.515
Friends don't do that. Do they?
27:22.142 --> 27:26.312
And sometimes I think,
maybe I was contributing to this.
27:26.313 --> 27:27.940
To Howard wanting her.
27:30.817 --> 27:32.818
I'm sorry, but I thought if you knew that,
27:32.819 --> 27:35.572
there was no way
you would ever love me anymore.
27:37.824 --> 27:40.953
I think we were all scared
of the same thing.
27:50.587 --> 27:54.173
Every day at three o'clock
I peel and cut this apple for Artie.
27:54.174 --> 27:56.426
And I leave a whole one for Junie.
27:57.094 --> 27:58.344
Every day.
27:58.345 --> 28:01.890
It's one of a million things that I do
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to keep their lives predictable
and to make them feel safe.
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Howard doesn't know about it.
28:18.657 --> 28:20.617
No one does 'cause it's invisible.
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It's my kids who are gonna suffer.
28:39.094 --> 28:40.679
What do we do now?
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We start with the truth.
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I'm gonna talk to Cora.
28:54.067 --> 28:56.903
I thought that as her father
you should know,
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that I'm… I'm gonna tell her everything.
29:00.115 --> 29:02.325
About us, about Nancy and Scott.
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I think if Nancy had more time,
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she would have been honest with Cora
about her past.
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No. Absolutely not.
29:09.917 --> 29:13.628
Robert, you may be fine
with all these secrets
29:13.629 --> 29:17.257
because you're a Hennessey, but I'm not.
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I can't, I don't want to live like this.
29:20.802 --> 29:23.514
These secrets killed Nancy.
29:24.681 --> 29:26.849
I don't want that for Cora.
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I hurt her and I owe her the truth.
29:30.437 --> 29:32.313
The truth?
She already thinks I'm an asshole.
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And you're just gonna make things worse.
29:34.691 --> 29:36.443
This isn't about you.
29:37.110 --> 29:38.736
- Oh, it isn't?
- No.
29:38.737 --> 29:41.281
This isn't about me
not giving you what you want?
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What you've always wanted?
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No.
29:49.498 --> 29:50.499
No.
29:51.625 --> 29:54.545
I used to want something from you.
29:56.129 --> 29:57.965
But I don't anymore.
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I'm gonna talk to Cora.
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You should take care of yourself.
30:05.973 --> 30:07.432
- Eleanor.
- Yes?
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I'm really sorry.
30:30.205 --> 30:31.622
I still wanna be there.
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I know.
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The best thing you can do for me
right now is to watch your sisters, okay?
30:37.379 --> 30:38.797
You think he'll win?
30:39.965 --> 30:41.842
Your aunt Ellie and I have a plan.
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I love you, sweetheart.
30:45.137 --> 30:46.680
Give the girls a hug for me.
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I will.
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- I love you too.
- Bye.
30:56.523 --> 30:59.066
I had never met anyone like Mary.
30:59.067 --> 31:00.234
None of us had.
31:00.235 --> 31:04.198
She's like empathy personified.
31:04.865 --> 31:10.244
She always has space in that huge,
expansive heart of hers for everyone.
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But especially for her children.
31:13.040 --> 31:17.961
No one means more to Mary
than Marcus and Juniper, and Artemis.
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Thank you, Ms. Bouchet.
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Ms. Bouchet,
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do you recall an incident
involving the respondent
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and her then eight-year-old daughter
during the month of October 2025?
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I would have to check my calendar.
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Oh, that's okay, I'll be specific.
31:37.105 --> 31:42.276
On October 19th, 2025,
were you aware that Mrs. Simpson,
31:42.277 --> 31:46.155
under the influence
of illegally procured amphetamines
31:46.156 --> 31:48.115
drove away from an ARCO gas station
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while her daughter, Juniper,
was still inside the mini-mart?
31:57.167 --> 31:58.502
Yes.
31:59.253 --> 32:00.921
Yes. What?
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Yes, I am aware that happened.
32:04.967 --> 32:06.509
She's human. She made a mistake.
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And on the morning of June fourth,
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were you with her
when her youngest daughter was admitted
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- to the emergency room having overdosed…
- I told you that wasn't me.
32:13.851 --> 32:15.309
- That was Howard.
- …on Mrs. Simpson's
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unprescribed Adderall?
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Yes, I was at the hospital.
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Thank you.
32:25.279 --> 32:26.780
No further questions, your honor.
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You can step down.
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Any further witnesses, Ms. Tisdall?
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Actually yes, Your Honor.
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She's just arrived.
32:49.219 --> 32:52.306
I was married to Howard for eight years.
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Did you have any children?
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None, to Howard's profound disappointment.
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I did get pregnant, but then I lost it.
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Looking back, it was
the biggest blessing of my life.
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Why? If you don't mind.
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Because humanity would be better off
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if some people didn't procreate.
33:22.127 --> 33:25.213
It sounds like
you didn't care much for your husband.
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I did at first.
33:27.132 --> 33:32.554
Howard has this
way of charming you through repulsion.
33:33.764 --> 33:36.808
It took eight years at least
before he lay his hands on me.
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It was only once, but…
33:41.355 --> 33:42.481
it was memorable.
33:45.192 --> 33:48.194
I spent the last two decades terrified
33:48.195 --> 33:51.865
that he would find me
and finish what he started.
33:53.158 --> 33:55.451
But I just look at him now
33:55.452 --> 33:58.664
and all I see is this angry child
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scared to death of his own mediocrity.
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All rise.
34:22.771 --> 34:23.772
Please sit.
34:26.525 --> 34:27.692
All right.
34:27.693 --> 34:30.903
When it comes to the emergency order
to request permission
34:30.904 --> 34:35.367
to relocate the children across
state lines, that request is denied.
34:36.909 --> 34:38.619
What does that mean? My job is in Ohio.
34:38.620 --> 34:40.037
That means get a new job.
34:40.038 --> 34:42.832
And given the pending
endangerment charges
34:42.833 --> 34:44.793
the respondent is currently facing,
34:45.585 --> 34:47.588
I am of the opinion
that the minor children,
34:48.338 --> 34:51.841
Artemis and Juniper Simpson,
are indeed in imminent harm
34:51.842 --> 34:54.927
and not safe to reside
with either parent at this time.
34:54.928 --> 34:56.345
- What?
- I am referring the matter
34:56.346 --> 34:59.098
to the Department of Children
and Family Services
34:59.099 --> 35:00.600
- to request…
- No.
35:00.601 --> 35:02.810
…temporary detention of the children.
35:02.811 --> 35:04.312
Once the case is resolved,
35:04.313 --> 35:08.191
we will reconvene
and assess our options long-term.
35:08.192 --> 35:09.401
Court is dismissed.
35:10.694 --> 35:11.819
We have options.
35:11.820 --> 35:12.987
It's gonna be okay.
35:12.988 --> 35:14.072
What happens now?
35:16.867 --> 35:19.118
- This wasn't supposed to happen this way.
- I know. I know.
35:19.119 --> 35:20.621
This wasn't supposed to happen.
35:21.830 --> 35:23.289
We will fight this.
35:23.290 --> 35:25.416
- What is wrong with you?
- No. No, no, no, no.
35:25.417 --> 35:27.460
- What the fuck is wrong with you?
- Stop it.
35:27.461 --> 35:31.465
I will come to the hotel and get you,
and you will stay with me.
35:47.523 --> 35:48.565
Ellie?
36:17.302 --> 36:18.428
Mare?
36:23.725 --> 36:25.143
Mary?
36:39.241 --> 36:41.492
Hey, you've reached Mary and Junie.
36:41.493 --> 36:42.910
And me!
36:42.911 --> 36:43.996
Come on.
36:48.959 --> 36:50.293
Aunt Ellie?
36:50.294 --> 36:52.461
Hey, have you heard from your mom?
36:52.462 --> 36:53.546
My mom? No.
36:53.547 --> 36:54.964
Is your father there?
36:54.965 --> 36:56.717
No, no, I haven't seen him.
36:57.384 --> 36:59.010
I was watching Junie and Artie
36:59.011 --> 37:01.637
and the social services people came
and took them.
37:01.638 --> 37:03.639
I'm not sure what to do.
37:03.640 --> 37:07.268
Okay, I'm gonna text you
the number for Detective Bethany Ganz.
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I want you to call her.
37:08.395 --> 37:11.230
There's something that I need you
to get to her from me. Okay?
37:11.231 --> 37:13.275
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
37:18.655 --> 37:19.656
You're gonna kill me?
37:21.658 --> 37:22.951
No, you're gonna kill you.
37:23.911 --> 37:25.037
Writes itself, really.
37:25.621 --> 37:27.413
Drug-addicted mother loses her kids.
37:27.414 --> 37:29.249
She's been in free fall for months.
37:29.833 --> 37:32.710
Nothing to live for.
So she slits her wrists and bleeds out
37:32.711 --> 37:35.214
in the very same spot
where her best friend was murdered.
37:38.342 --> 37:40.219
Eleanor and I spoke to Scott.
37:44.139 --> 37:45.140
He saw you.
37:46.433 --> 37:49.019
He saw you do it. He saw you kill Nancy.
37:50.062 --> 37:53.273
She asked him to meet her here.
37:54.024 --> 37:59.988
And she asked him to hurt you,
so that you would leave her alone.
38:01.073 --> 38:02.157
You're lying.
38:03.158 --> 38:05.994
Am I? Am I lying?
38:06.703 --> 38:09.748
You said that you knew Nancy
better than I did.
38:10.749 --> 38:12.542
Is that something
that she'd be capable of?
38:12.543 --> 38:14.628
Why am I free while he's in jail?
38:15.254 --> 38:16.255
Because…
38:17.506 --> 38:21.927
Because Detective Ganz needs
solid proof that you did it.
38:22.511 --> 38:24.179
And Ellie and I are supposed to get it.
38:25.097 --> 38:28.892
We are… We're supposed
to meet her in my hotel room tonight.
38:30.352 --> 38:31.687
And now I won't be there.
38:34.815 --> 38:39.069
Detective Ganz
will never think that I killed myself.
38:41.113 --> 38:43.615
She will know that you did it.
38:45.242 --> 38:46.534
Listen to me, Howard.
38:46.535 --> 38:47.827
Listen to me.
38:47.828 --> 38:49.872
There's only one thing
for you to do here, okay?
38:50.455 --> 38:52.248
You let me call Ellie.
38:52.249 --> 38:56.044
Listen to me,
I will tell her that it's off.
38:56.545 --> 38:57.880
I can't do it.
39:00.257 --> 39:01.550
And you run.
39:03.760 --> 39:05.971
You go.
39:07.181 --> 39:09.183
You do not take the girls.
39:09.766 --> 39:11.268
You don't want the girls.
39:14.521 --> 39:16.940
Just go.
39:19.818 --> 39:23.113
And you will finally be free.
39:27.492 --> 39:28.744
Let me call her.
39:29.745 --> 39:30.787
Okay?
39:32.581 --> 39:33.707
It's okay.
39:39.087 --> 39:40.547
Shit! Damn it!
39:48.263 --> 39:50.348
Damn it! Fuck, Howard!
39:50.349 --> 39:51.599
You brought me to a dead zone.
39:51.600 --> 39:53.392
It's not even gonna go through.
39:53.393 --> 39:54.477
Enough of this.
39:54.478 --> 39:56.813
We stick to the plan.
Get up. Come on. Move.
39:58.690 --> 40:00.943
The dead zone.
The victim was murdered here.
40:02.069 --> 40:03.819
Oh, my God. Dead zone.
40:03.820 --> 40:05.155
Shit!
40:08.659 --> 40:09.785
Walk.
40:11.912 --> 40:14.830
- When did you stop loving me, huh?
- Oh, come on. Come on.
40:14.831 --> 40:15.832
No!
40:17.209 --> 40:20.086
I gave you my whole adult life,
40:20.087 --> 40:23.130
so if I'm gonna die tonight,
I'd like to know.
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Okay, you wanna know?
40:24.299 --> 40:28.136
When you were my TA,
you had limitless potential.
40:28.804 --> 40:32.014
You had a mind
that I thought would set the world ablaze.
40:32.015 --> 40:33.307
But you didn't.
40:33.308 --> 40:36.728
You became a drudge,
and a nag, and a bore.
40:37.229 --> 40:38.564
Why did you do it?
40:40.315 --> 40:42.400
Tell me, Howard. Why did you kill Nancy?
40:42.401 --> 40:45.529
'Cause I wanted to show her,
but she wouldn't listen.
40:53.787 --> 40:54.996
What are we doing down here?
40:54.997 --> 40:55.998
Look.
40:57.749 --> 40:58.916
What am I looking at?
40:58.917 --> 41:00.043
This!
41:00.878 --> 41:02.795
- The bridge?
- The colonnade.
41:02.796 --> 41:06.049
I think there's nothing
more beautiful at night.
41:07.217 --> 41:08.510
I'm cold.
41:09.303 --> 41:11.263
It's something right in your backyard.
41:11.930 --> 41:14.599
And you've probably never seen it
from this angle before.
41:14.600 --> 41:17.310
I'm not in the mood
for your metaphors right now.
41:17.311 --> 41:18.394
Can we go back?
41:18.395 --> 41:20.230
Wait, I have to say something.
41:22.691 --> 41:23.858
I'm in love with you.
41:23.859 --> 41:26.612
- Howard, please--
- Wait, wait, wait. Let me finish.
41:27.279 --> 41:29.655
We can be together. I've planned it.
41:29.656 --> 41:31.407
I've stashed money away.
41:31.408 --> 41:33.201
I don't want that.
41:33.202 --> 41:36.913
You were never happier or more alive
than you were in that theater at night.
41:36.914 --> 41:38.206
- What?
- I could feel
41:38.207 --> 41:40.334
- the passion that I awoke in you.
- You are delusional!
41:44.379 --> 41:45.380
Come back here.
41:47.132 --> 41:48.133
No.
41:49.259 --> 41:50.719
This has to stop.
41:51.929 --> 41:53.055
I have to tell her.
41:54.014 --> 41:55.015
You don't mean that.
41:55.641 --> 41:58.893
She may never speak to me again,
but she deserves to know the truth.
41:58.894 --> 42:00.729
Oh, come on.
You don't give a fuck about Mary.
42:12.741 --> 42:14.743
She would be alive if it wasn't for you.
42:17.996 --> 42:19.455
What the hell are you doing?
42:19.456 --> 42:21.333
She wasn't the fragile one.
42:22.626 --> 42:23.669
You were.
42:27.297 --> 42:29.132
You fucking bitch!
42:35.430 --> 42:36.473
- Gotcha.
- Ow!
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You blew it.
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We could have been…
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We could have been… We could have been…
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We could have been…
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Oh, God.
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Mare. Mary. Mary!
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Oh, my God.
Wake up, please. Please wake up.
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Oh, God. Oh, God.
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No! No!
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It's okay.
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We're okay.
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You're okay. Oh, God.
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- Oh, God. We…
- We're okay.
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We're okay.
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Thank you.
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- I'm sorry, are you family?
- Yes, I'm going with her. Mary.
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Ellie.
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You okay?
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Are you?
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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We were supposed to grow old together.
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That was the agreement.
It was a promise made when we were young.
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Young enough not to know
the terrible irony of friendship.
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That the deeper you love someone, the
more agonizing the pain when they're gone.
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There's a temptation,
after so much heartbreak,
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to become an island.
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But that's a mistake.
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Staying available to love
is worth the risk.
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To keep reaching for that deeper sense
of joy and belonging.
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I'd like to say
all that pain we went through was a gift.
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That it taught us how strong we are.
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How capable of healing.
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But after everything we've been through,
we could never lose the bond we share.
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Our friendship is too powerful.
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It should be able to survive
just about anything.
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At least for now.